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posted by chromas on Wednesday March 27 2019, @09:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the video-games-are-not-exercise dept.

How Your Office job is Affecting Your Metabolism:

The idea that long bouts of uninterrupted sitting might be bad for your health has gotten lots of attention over the past decade. The reason may seem obvious: If you’re sitting all the time, you’re not exercising. But emerging evidence suggests that there’s a deeper connection between sedentary time and lack of exercise, with the combination of both worse than either one on its own.

In a new study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, researchers at the University of Texas show that four days of prolonged sitting induces a state that they call “exercise resistance.”

They had 10 volunteers complete two four-day protocols that involved sitting around for more than 13 hours a day while taking fewer than 4,000 steps. At the end of one of the four-day periods, they did a vigorous one-hour treadmill workout.

Normally a one-hour workout would produce a set of metabolic benefits that persist for at least a day. Your insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance, both of which are associated with heart health, improve immediately. And your postprandial lipemia – the rise in triglycerides circulating in your blood after a fatty meal, which may contribute to blocked arteries – will be attenuated.

But when the researchers fed their volunteers a high-fat, high-sugar slurry of melted ice cream and half-and-half creamer the next day, their blood sugar, insulin and triglyceride levels shot up by the same amount regardless of whether they’d exercised the night before. After all the sitting, their workout no longer packed its usual health punch.

If exercise after extended sitting didn't help, why bother exercising?


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  • (Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:06PM (3 children)

    by Snow (1601) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @03:06PM (#820681) Journal

    How do you have time to work out, shower, and then get ready for the afternoon? What about actually eating?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:42PM (#820802)

    He's a Very Large Man, walking to lunch IS the workout! You try carrying an extra 100lbs to the deli and see how tired you get.

  • (Score: 2) by rleigh on Wednesday March 27 2019, @08:25PM (1 child)

    by rleigh (4887) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @08:25PM (#820919) Homepage

    5k run is 25 mins max, 5 mins to shower and 30 mins to eat lunch. I do it all the time within my lunch hour and still do 8 hours of work.

    • (Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday March 27 2019, @08:55PM

      by Snow (1601) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @08:55PM (#820938) Journal

      Good on ya man!

      I blow dry and style my hair. That takes 5 mins right there. Plus changing twice.

      I suppose I could still do it, and should do it...